On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Stacey Wood wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently writing an R package and want to declare a GPL2 license. > According to the license agreement, I'm supposed to display: > > "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation ... See the > GNU General Public License for more details." > > When I add this statement to the description file, the package cannot be > processed. Where should I add this statement to appropriately cite the > license? > > Thanks, > Stacey
Stacey, Read the Package Structure section of the "Writing R Extensions" manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-structure where you can see an example of the DESCRIPTION file, including the "License" field. If you want (and you should), create and include a file called "COPYING" in the 'inst' folder in the package, so that it gets copied to the main package directory upon installation. The content for that file (the GPL 2 license) is at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
